On 24 Sep 2006 at 16:50, Andrew Stiller wrote: > In the first half of the twentieth century, > hand engraving was still the only way to publish music, and so the > (very controversial) new music of the time (Stravinsky, Schoenberg, > etc.) was all engraved regardless of return, and any losses written > off as worth it for the prestige.
This is not exactly true. The first edition of Wagner's Tannhäuser was not engraved -- he copied it himself directly in inks for transfer to a lithograph master. In a cetain sense, each of the 100 or so copies made from that master constitute 1/100th of the autograph. Engraving was probably the widest used method, but most of the printing was still lithograph by 1900 or so. How the litho masters were produced would have been quite variable, but very little of the printing was done straight from engraved plates. -- David W. Fenton http://dfenton.com David Fenton Associates http://dfenton.com/DFA/ _______________________________________________ Finale mailing list [email protected] http://lists.shsu.edu/mailman/listinfo/finale
